THE ST. HELENS MIST
Issued Kvery Friday br
THE MIST PUBLISHING .COMPANY
O. D. HEILB0RN....V1C6 President
and. Manager.
B. C. MORTON Editor
8CB8CIUPT10N HATES
One Tear $2.00
Six Months 1.00
Entered as second-class matter,
January 10th, 1911, at the Postotflce
at Bt. Helen, Oregon, under the act
of March 3rd, 1879.
COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPEll
Member National Editorial Asso
ciation and Oregon Stato Editorial
Association.
above, more fixed authority end re
sponsible y below."
There Is yet time for the president
to hood this candid counsel and re
trieve his administration from the
THE ST. HELENS MIST. PPTHAY. MARCH 12. 920.
NOTH K TO HtMl roll
AM. ARK HAPPY NOW
The Investigation of the spruce
graft and the mismanaged affairs
of the "army of the Yeon" seems
to have ended autisfnclorll to all coti-
. lu II U 1 O l" 111 I II "lui ' i
quagmire Into which it Is sinking. COrnod. The Republican members of
Uut it will require a great purpose the congressional committee censure
effort on his part, audi the adininlstratloi
and a severe
the country sees as yet no indica
tion that these will be forthcoming.
Spokesman Review.
RESTRICTED BUILDING DIS
TRICTS It has boen suggested that the
down town business section of St.
Helens be put in a restricted building
district and that structures which are
not fire proof or semi-fire proof,
should not be built In the district.
The territory suggested as the re
stricted district would begin at St.
Helens street and take in all terri
tory between the east side of Col
umbia street and the river as fur as
Tualatin or McCormick streets.
St. Helens as a whole. Is not
ready for any drastic building regu
lations, for In the greater part of
the town the buildings are scatter-1
ed and there is little danger of a
flro spreading. But in the down
town district it is different. Thore
are many buildings close together
and once a fire is started, it would be
a hard matter to check.
There Is an ordinance now in ef
fect as to building permits. The
ordinance provides that before erect
ing a building of any kind, that a
building permit must be secured
from the council. The ordinance
was drawn and passed so that there
could be some regulation as to build
ing, and It was V duty of the coun
cil to investigate the location, plans
and specifications, etc., before issu
ing the pormit. Members of several
councils have paid little attention to
the ordinance and the present council
has been the worst offender. The
Mist doubts very much If a single
member of the council has read the
ordinance, or if a majority of them
knew such an ordinance was in ef
fect. The custom seems to have been
to build the structure and then get
a permit. This has happened time
and time again, and not in a single
instance that has come to our know
ledge, has the council made the
slightest Investigation before issu
ing the permit. This method of do
ing business is all wrong. It the
ordinance is no good, kill It; it it Is a
good one, follow it out.
But coming back to the mireestinn
of a restricted building district, the
mist minus .me suggestion a good
one and should be worked out. The
interested property owners should
iirst De interviewed and plans for
mulated In accordance with the wish
es of a majority of them.
ORIGIN OK 1JVK8TOOK INDUSTRY
IX THIS RKOION. ,
The beginning of the live stock In
dustry in the Pacific northwest goes
back 100 years, when the Hudson's
Bay company held this region under
tho British flag and was the law and
authority of the land.
When the Rev. Samuel Parker
traveled through this region In 1835
on a scouting mission for the Ameri
can board of foreign missions he
was a guest of the fur company at
Vancouver, on the lower Clumbia.
and at old Colvllle, near the Kettle
falls of that river.
Dr. John Mclaughlin, the benign
and generous autocrat of the north
west, had headquarters at Vancouver
and there Mr. Parker found 100
horses, 200 sheep, 40 goats and 300
hogs. Tlffe Vancouver farm produced
that year BOOO bushels of wheat,
1300 bushels of potatoes, 1000 of
barley, 1000 of oats and 2000 of
peas. Dr. nicLouetuin nau a line
vegetable garden of five acres, and
a grist mill, propelled by oxen, was
kept in constant use.
At Colvllle Mr. Parker also found
a largo and well-stocked farm, with
a nearby gristmill driven by water
power, and wrote enthusiastically of
the pleasant pastoral scenes that un
rolled before his vision as ha ap
proached the settlement and viewed
the smiling valley from an eminence.
FRAXK
CRITICISM FROM
RETARY LANE.
SEC.
tlon and the democrat
ic members uphold It. liotli have
had their say and the white washer
has been busy, so all are satisfied.
Political thunder has been obtained
fur tinth Hilton. General Disiiuo In
happy over his accomplishments, the
grafters are enjoying their graft
money and the taxpayers Bre happy
that no more good money will b;
spent In Buch investigations to aug
ment the wnste of hundreds of thous
ands of dollars for which tho MlHt
holds General Dlsque and higher ups
responsible Hut. if Congress really
wanted to Investigate, several real
honest Investigators might have un
earthed something which would have
been of benefit to the government.
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re of .he Kstate of
Frank W. Johnson, Deceased.
Notice Is liereny K1' ' " , I
derslgned Minnie J.uinson. ev.i t.
f ,lu. lust will a.i.1 testament f
Knuik W. Johnson, deceased, to l
creditor of. and all persons .:.
claims UKalnst said deceased U P
sent them, with the necetwin om ti
ers, within six months from the date
of the first publication of this not ce,
viz: March 9. 19!. to " "'"'V;
signed, at Ml-t. Oregon, or at tl
Milton-8lte selected for new UU-
mn hluh school.
Klumatl, Kail- Upreckels inter
,wts have purchased 30.000 Weed
ranch on- ll"T Khunath lake to
icrow siicur beets and will build re-llliery.
Hums
lo have nu
year
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frr'ii Columbia n,.. W
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February amounted to o"!,?':
lier nt
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,.m.- of 1-ovul M. Graham
lorm.v. at Forest Grove. Oregon
ni,..l nl St. Helens, Oregon
9lh day of March, ll!t.
MINNIK JOHNSON, .
Executrix of tne Estate of Frank
V Johnson, deceased.
l.ovnl M. Graham. Attorney,
Forest Grove. Oregon. 13-1 i-ji
BRINGS
CANNING INDUSTRY
PROSPERITY.
Farmers in Western Washington,
Oregon, and California have the op
portunity of a lifetime to plant small
fruits such as loganberries, straw
berries, raspberries, etc., and make
most substantial returns.
Tho manufacturing end of farming
has created world wide markets
which are asking for nioro than the
farmers are producing.
Canneries, jam factories and juice
plants have revolutionized farming
For years in the heighth of the
berry seasons over-production and
no market was the rule. Now It is
just the reverso for the factories
hr.ve stabilized the price and market
conditions by being able to use ev
ery pound of fruit the growers raise
so that when the picking Is heaviest
thore is no glutting of local market?
as in the past.
A world trade has been developed
and If we are to supply it more raw
material must be produced. Farm
and factory must co-operate If full)
advantage is to De taken or the situ
atlon.
HARVEY'S 1IIMOROIS HARVEST
Colonel George Harvey of Har
vey's Weekly found a rich field In
the Wllson-I-ansim; correspondence,
and gathered a humorous harvest.
"No; Mr. Wilson Is not crazy; ho
is just mad, not as a hatter, but as
a hornet that has been sat upon; so
mud that he can't bear It without
stinging-"
"Only a year ago Woodrow Wilson
was not only tho greatest man on
earth, but the greatest man who had
ever been on earth or anywhere else,
so far as we know."
"And now! Every bubble burst
Hated In Italy, reviled In France,
calmly ignored in England and await
ing In his own country a verdict of
violent repudiation such as has never
been recorded in the history of the
Republic."
"Is it not remarkable that ho has
not broken out before with some-!
thing that would seemed equally
crazy? Quite likely poor Lansing
happened to be the first suitable
goat to appear. Anyhow the first
letter was indicted oily, crafty, in
sinuating and utterly false In all Its
in plications; in a word, as we havo
remarked, wholly normal."
"The doctors have disagreed or
lied about his malady from tho be
ginning. The only one who hud It
right from the start was .ona'.or
Moses."
NOTICE OF FINAL SETI'LEMEX t
IN THE t'OI'NTV t'Ol'HT OF Tllh"
STATE OF OltF.GON. FOR ".-
i. Mill a cor'.y.
Ill the Matter of the estate of W l
llam K. Muvllle, IVrense.'.
Noticn is hereby given that the
undersigned, administrator of the es
tate of William E. Mayvllle. deceas
ed, has filed his Until account In tin
said County Court of the State of
Oregon for Columbia County, and
that Saturday, the 10th day of April,
1920. at the hour of 11 o'clock A
M. of said day and the Court room
of said Court, has 1 1 flv-d by said
Court as the time and place for thn
hearing of objections to said account
If any and the settlement thereof
lulled and first published March
12th. 1920.
CHARLES I. WIIF.Kl.F.lt.
Administrator
W. A. HARRIS, Attorney.
Astorii To begin drilling fo; (II
in Clatsop county within 0 days.
Milton--3 huge transformers ami
other equipment Installed In Free
water substation. Will add litl per
cent to present horsepower rapacity
of ph'.nt.
FRENCH CASUALTIES 4,IIM,8tM
Six hundred French officers and
28.000 men died of war wounds the
year following the armistice bringing
t ho total French war deaths lo 1.
343,000. France's most dearly won
victory, the first battle of the Murne,
cost 33,329 lives. Add to the num
ber of French dead the 2.80S.OOO
poilus wounded In action and the
more than one-half million French
prisoners alive at tho end of the war,
and the French casualties were 4,
690.800, or more than 20 per cent
of all France's manpower.
An undercurrent of severe criti
cism of President Wilson's imperious
Deanngs toward his cabinet flows
through retiring Secretary Lane's
iiiiai report 10 tne White House.
Washington (he says) is rich
In brains and character. It Is
honest. It wishes to promote
the public good, but it is poorly
organized for the task. Ability
is paralyzed by details and an
unwillingness of public servants
to take responsibility.
An then these sitrnirien
"Every one seems to be afraid of
every one. The creative sens
atrophies. Trust, confidence, enthu-
oiusiu urn lacKing.
ThA ....
1 . . , , " Wllllngness that was
.mi 01 puonc servants to take re
oyuutuuuiiy - winked out with the
presmenis narsh rebuke, directed
expressly against Secretary Lansing
and Implied against the other
members who joined him In the en
tirely proper and patriotic effort to
keep the administrative end of the
government functioning through the
long period of presidential incapacity
After that it was quite impossible
that 'trust, confidence and enthusi
asm could continue. The president
had destroyed them.
They were, Indeed, cribbed, cabin
ed and confined to some degree all
through the Wilson administration
tut conditions gro rapidly worse
with the mounting imperiousness of
the president, manifested so conspic
uously in his autocratic bearing at
Paris, and emphasized upon his re
turn from the peace conference.
By unanimous recognition Mr.
Lane has been regarded for seven
years as one of the ablest .n in the
cabinet. But ho leaves that body a
disappointed man, protesting openly
because "every man is held to de
tails, to tho narrower view," when
the need was for "opportunity for
planning, engineering statesmanship
A PATHETIC FAREWELL
The Shamrock, published In Dub
Hn, is responsible for the following.
"Quite a number of newspapers have
been obliged to put their shutters
up, owing to the prohibitive cost of
paper. But a Queensland paper has
quitted for a different reason. Here's
the obituary notice the irate editor
presented to his readers:
"With this issue the Herald folds
its lily white hands on its bosom and
turns its pink toes to the daisies, and
this town Is now without a paper
having witnessed the death of it3
reptile contemporary. It has cost
the present proprietor a fortune to
advertise the town, the beautiful
blue and fertile soils, and so we
now throw up the sponge and vacate
to make room for another. Ta-ta1
Au revoir, god-bye, so long, mind
the Btep! We are going to do some
thing for you that Satan will never
do that is leave you." Ex.
MANY MEMORIAL ISULDINGS
Decision to erect war memorials
in the form of buildings to bo so
cial centers has been reached by
306 cities, towns, and villages In tiie
United States, figures Just made pub
lic by war camp community service
show. The organization is currying
on a country-wide campaign for com
munity memorials through lta bu
reau of memorial buildings. Reports
In the offices of that bureau show
that 700 other communities are con
sidering the erection of memorial
houses.
EAT
"Mt. Hood" Ice Cream
EVERY DAY
IT'S GOOD FOR YOU.
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LOOKING TO THE FUTURE
Ono who reads the advert
In newspapers today will be im
pressed with the thought expressed
by l.-.rge banking Institutions.
Industry and development of the
farms Is emphasized and the banks
are showing the close connection be
tween the average individual's pros
perity and sound Industrial condi
tions. Bankers realize that their pros
perity depends on the prosperity of
the individual and industry gener
ally and they are bending their ef
forts to help the country develop
along sound lines.
MUCH BETTER
"In your sermon of this morning
you Bpoke of a baby as a 'new wave
on tho ocean of life'," said the church
warden, who had recently become a
father, to the vicar in the vestry.
"I did," agreed the vicar. "It was
a poetic figure of speech."
'I'Don't you think a fresh squall
would have hit the mark better?"
Boardtnan dedicates
munity school.
new com-
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FATTEN THE CALVES
lly using
SECURITY CALF I'OOK
for calves and little plies.
A 25 lb. pull for ti.fto.
Other Stock Foods and Feed
FRANK WILKINS
Sheldon Dock
St. Helens Oregon.
COST OF LIVING UP
In spite of the strenuous asser
tions of Attorney General Palmer
that the present democratic adminis
tration is reducing the cost of living
reports issued by the Bureau of La
bor Statistics of the Department of
Labor show that the cost of living
is still on the increase. Tlyi average
family expenditure for food was 2
per cent higher on Jan. 15, 1920,
than on Dec. 15, 1919, and the cost
in December was 2.6 per cent higher
than it had been In any previous
month.
JUST ARRIVED
A Beautiful Lot of Gingham
Dresses
Cover-al Aprons
Several Styles in Warner Corsets
M. RICEN
OPEN EVENINGS
Spring Goods Arriving
Our stock of spring goods is arriving and we are showing
beautiful patterns in dress goods.
Whatever you want in general merchandise, you will find
at our store and the quality and prices are right.
Tel 35
A. T. KIBLAN
(One block east depot) St. Helens, Oregon
JUST ARRIVED
New lot of Congolium Rugs.
The Best Floor Covering for Dining Rooms
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l1? -..15.75
a x 12 18.25
Also have good assortment of Linoleums in
prints and felt base goods, 85c to $1.50 per yard
E. A. ROSS
THE HOUSEFURNISHER
Masonic Bldg. St IIe,ens
When You Buy a Watch
You should get one that you can rcl on. W uttth
Kl.tilN and WALTIIAM watches In silver and 1)UI CJ
Watches will bo higher In price and liurd lo 11 ..j
we advlMi you to buy now If you contemplat, nltln J
watch.
VON A. GRAY
Reliable Watchmaker and Jeweler
Let Us Help You
SAVE
Saving on vour eatables is as
QUALITY as it ia of PRICE.
much a matter of
Our prices are ALWAYS right, but the important
thing is that we GUARANTEE YOU QUALITY.
You practice economy by trading ' '
at this store and eat better as well.
THOMAS H. ROY
Till". MONT.Y SAVING GKOCKK.
Phone 42 St. Helens, OregM
The Kids
Love It
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Our Bread, Cakes, Pies, Pastry, Crean,
Rolls and other nice goodies baked
Fresh every day
We serve White Clover Ice Cream
ST. HELENS BAKERY
J. E. RAMSEY, Prop. ST. HELENS, ORE1
Build up the Country and
The City will Build
up Itself
PROSPEROUS agricultural community mean
thriving business for its trading and commerce
center.
Therefore it is to the interest of St. Helena genera"
to promote the development of Columbia County
Particularly.
The Columbia County Bank is looking ahead, as wf!
as caring for the business of the present.
ST HRUN3
IN CO,
ULfMUlA COUNTY